Obscure non blockbuster films worth seeing. Follow

I liked Persepolis alot and recommend the graphic novels. I had very mixed feelings about the Triplets of Belleville and be curious to hear what you think.

2046 is a pretty compelling movie--especially visually. Not surprising since the director, better known for the movie In the Mood for Love, is known for his visually striking movies.

All I remember of the Triplets of Bellville was that it was cute, but not outstanding. A pleasant movie to watch, but not one I want to collect.

Some really good stuff in here. I also highly reccomend "C'est arrive pres de chez vous", I think the English title is Man Bites Dog. It's black humour of the highest order: disturbing, slightly sick, but hilarious at the same time. Not for the squimish however, a couple of scenes are quite hardcore.

Persepolis was great, but the comic was even better. Belleville Triplets, I really enjoyed too. It made sense
to me, but maybe it's becaue I knew the context, dunno.

Delicatessen and the City of Lost Children have also been mentionned, and they are brilliant. Anything by Jeunet usually is, as proven by Amelie. I really enjoyed "The taste of others", a delicious French observational comedy. Anything by Jaoui/Bacri is well worth watching.

Memento is a classic, and a must for anyone that hasn't seen it yet. And if anyone hasn't seen Lock Stock, then do it. It's even better than Snatch.

That's it for now, I'm sure more will come back to me. But, as Jeff would say in one of my all-time favourite films, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

A good French film, action/horror, Le Pact des Loups

I concur. Adam Sandler does rage better than anyone in Hollywood.

Talentless hack. Happy Gilmour was a funny movie, every movie he's made since has either been a ****** sequel or the worst attempt at serious acting since Bill Murray in The Razor's Edge.

Six String Samurai is the win.

I think Snatch is Lock Stock for foreigners.

I'd highly recommend Southland Tales". Just check out the cast - that alone should show how worthwhile it'd be. Here's the trailer: Southland Tales

I've seen this movie three times and counting thus far.
The first time I saw it I was honestly surprised I'd never heard of it prior to recent.

I highly reccomend "Walz with Bashir".

It's an Israeli animated film about the first Lebanon war, and the Sabra and Chatilla massacres in particular. The story is about an Israeli who was in the army during that war, and who, 20 years later, can't remember anything that he did during that time. He sets-out to meet some of the other soldiers that were with him at the time, to jog his memory and reconstruct what happened during the conflict. It's incredibly powerful, moving, clever, a reflection on war, humanity, memory, and human psychology.

To continue with the Middle-East theme, and I realise this isn't a film but still, I'm reading Robert Fisk's book "The Great War for Civilisation".

Fisk has been a reporter for the BBC and the Canadian BC in the Middle-East for the past 30 years. He'd met and interviewed Bin Laden 3 times before 9/11, witnessed the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iran-Iraq war, the Israel wars in lebanon, and of course the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is a collection of his observations and articles from this period, and it's absolutely fascinating. Well-written, touching, sad, amusing, scary, it's an incredible window into the ME's History. It's worth it just for the Bin Laden interviews from the mid-90s. Absolutely fascinating stuff, I heartily reccomend it for anyone remotely intrested in the ME.

I once had a thread in =4 where I said I'd watch and review whatever movies people threw at me. One of them was Southland Tales.

When I got the DVD from Netflix, I read the sleeve and thought "What the f--k is THIS ****?". But I resolved to follow through and put the disc in a couple days later. Wouldn't run. Tried it again... nope. Pulled it out and looked at it and the data side had a huge split running across it. I reported it as damaged to Netflix, sent it back and called it an omen. God was looking out for me.

The Cook, The Theif, His Wife, And Her Lover. If you have a really strong stomach. And ESPECIALLY if you don't read the blurb/sleeve, because it gives the entire story away and ruins it.

Some local ones:

"Friday" - based on a play by Hugo Claus. It does deal with a very taboo subject and will be extremely hard to locate with subtitles or dubbed.

"Spoorloos" - remade with Kiefer Sutherland as The Vanishing, but the original is better, definitely one of the better Dutch movies.

"C'est arrivé pres de chez vous" is already mentioned, but worth repeating. ("Man bites dog")

"The discovery of Heaven" - based on Harry Mulisch's book, with Stephen Fry. Not as good as it could have been (the book itself is magnificent) but still not half bad either.